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Sunnyside Air Quality Monitor

Energy & Environment

EPA awards another $500,000 grant for air-quality monitoring in Houston neighborhoods

Posted on · A grant awarded this week by the federal agency will expand air-quality monitoring in the Fifth Ward, Galena Park, Pleasantville and Sunnyside neighborhoods. Earlier this year, the EPA awarded $500,000 for air monitoring in four other communities in East Houston.

HPD Spring Branch ISD Officer-Involved Shooting

Crime

Spring Branch ISD police officer fatally shoots man suspected of killing his father before stealing cars outside elementary school

Posted on · A man suspected of fatally shooting his father on Thursday in the 2500 block of Mona Lee Lane was subsequently shot and killed by a school district police officer in the 2800 block of Campbell Road, after allegedly stealing two cars outside of Buffalo Creek Elementary.

Lina Hidalgo Kim Ogg

Harris County

Former Lina Hidalgo staffer under indictment in Harris County seeks to void new search warrants

Posted on · Attorneys for Alex Triantaphyllis, one of three former Hidalgo staffers who have been accused of steering a lucrative government contract to a preferred vendor, claim in a motion filed Monday that new search warrants obtained in the case are overly broad and based on falsified information.